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Meanwhile, Dr. Dalldorf explained at the awards luncheon in Manhattan, the Coxsackie criminal has been shown to be an international syndicate of about 30 viruses in two groups. Some cause Iceland's pleurodynia, or "devil's grip," and Bornholm disease (named for the Danish island in the Baltic where it was first reported). Others cause a rapidly fatal inflammation of the heart muscle in the newborn. One sets off a severe sore throat unaptly named herpangina. Several behave like polio's little brothers. And, said Dr. Dalldorf, now with Sloan-Kettering Institute after a stint with...
...commodore of a squadron including Bonhomme Richard (40 guns), frigates Alliance (36 guns) and Pallas (26 guns), and brig Vengeance (12 guns), Jones was cruising off Yorkshire's Flamborough Head when at 3 o'clock one afternoon he sighted a Baltic merchant fleet, escorted by frigate Serapis (50 guns) and sloop of war Countess of Scarborough (20 guns...
Eleven hours out of Baltimore's Friendship International Airport, 4½ hours after a refueling touchdown in Iceland, the gleaming Boeing 707 jet transport, emblazoned u.s. AIR FORCE, peacefully cruised eastbound above the sandy beaches of Baltic Latvia toward the heart of the Soviet Union. With Russian officers peering over the shoulders of American pilots, with its distinguished passengers at the windows looking down upon unfamiliar landscape, the jet flew on across the great Russian plain, the jagged pattern of Russian farm fields, an occasional blue lake and great patches of green forest, until it let down through...
...figures, to give Khrushchev the silent treatment. Last week the Soviet Foreign Office called in the Moscow envoys of Sweden, Denmark and Norway to inform them coldly that Nikita had decided to cancel his Scandinavian tour. Originally, he had planned to talk up his proposal for a nuclear-free "Baltic zone of peace," an odd notion for him to peddle, since Russia alone of the Baltic powers has nuclear weapons. Obviously he would not get far with it, and was in no mood to expose himself to so well publicized a loss of face. Besides, he said, the Scandinavian governments...
SAILINGS TO RUSSIA are being planned by Moore-McCormack Lines, with regular runs to Baltic ports for freight, passenger-cruise stops at Leningrad and Riga next summer...